Ken Muse

Speaking Events

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

  • - Live! 360 Tech Con 2025

    Live! 360 is a unique conference offering you 6 co-located events for one great price, including Visual Studio Live!, TechMentor, Artificial Intelligence Live!, Data Platform Live!, Cloud & Containers Live!, and Cybersecurity & Ransomware Live! Stay ahead of the current trends and advance your career at Live! 360, the Ultimate Education Destination.
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  • (8:30 AM EST) VSM03 Workshop: Agentic DevOps: AI-Powered Development with Azure DevOps and GitHub Live! 360

    In this intensive 8-hour workshop, Brian Randell, Mickey Gousset, and Ken Muse will explore how intelligent agents are transforming the software development lifecycle through “Agentic DevOps". While many organizations have improved, the software development industry wants to try and move from weeks to plan, months to build, and quarters to launch; and instead transform to ideas become prototypes in hours and reach production in days. Modern teams need new strategies to harness AI throughout their DevOps practices.
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  • (4:00 PM EST) VSW15 Hardening CI/CD: Essential Strategies to Mitigate Security Risks Live! 360

    Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are the backbone of modern software development, enabling efficient and reliable application delivery. However, as these pipelines become more integral to our workflows, they also present significant security challenges. Without proper safeguards, vulnerabilities within CI/CD systems can serve as entry points for supply chain attacks and other exploits. This session delves into best practices for fortifying CI/CD pipelines, drawing on real-world incidents to illustrate common pitfalls and the tactics employed by malicious actors. Attendees will gain actionable insights to identify and address vulnerabilities, ensuring their CI/CD processes are both secure and resilient against emerging threats.
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  • (11:00 AM EST) Artificial Intelligence Live! Panel Discussion: Governance in the AI Age Live! 360

    Think mere data protection, security, and governance is tough? Governing AI ups the ante, significantly. In addition to the model governance, explainability and experiment management that machine learning requires, generative AI adds things like mitigating hallucination, avoiding prompt injection, and preventing data exfiltration. Now, ponder governing AI agents, which have the privilege of autonomy, the power of reasoning, and the ability to solve for—and modify—their own goals, and things orders of magnitude tougher. This isn’t just about data cleansing and access control, it’s about accountability, explainability, and control over autonomous processing. But if we think governance of AI through from the start, rather than layering it on as an afterthought, there’s good reason to believe we can be both successful and safe. Join our panel of experts to hear their ideas around these important questions, and share your own.
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  • (1:00 PM EST) VSH10 Navigating the Project Storm: A Guide to Overcoming 10 Development Project Pitfalls Live! 360

    Embark on a transformative journey with Mickey Gousset and Ken Muse as we uncover the secrets to project success in our dynamic tech landscape. In this presentation, we’ll delve into 10 Reasons Development Projects Fail and equip you with battle-tested strategies to mitigate these risks. From meticulous planning and open communication to effective testing and stakeholder engagement, we’ll unlock the keys to project prosperity. Get ready to steer your projects away from the rocks and sail smoothly towards triumph!
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  • (8:00 AM EST) AIF01 Workshop: Modern & Secure AI Engineering with C#, GitHub, and Azure Live! 360

    In this jam-packed, one-day lecture and demo-focused workshop, Brian Randell, Mickey Gousset, and Ken Muse will take you on a journey through building intelligent AI-powered applications using C#, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI services, and modern DevOps practices. You’ll explore essential AI concepts, practical architectural patterns, and best practices for integrating powerful AI models into your applications. The team will demonstrate state-of-the-art techniques, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, advanced prompt engineering, and responsible AI practices. You’ll also see how DevOps, MLOps, and Platform Engineering come together seamlessly, enabling secure, reliable, and continuous deployment of intelligent applications.
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